Journal #19:
Q=“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.”
---Assata Shakur
A= One of the most common forms of "fighting for what you believe in" is the method of striking. This involves gathering as much supporters of something you too believe in, and spreading awareness to everyone around. The quote by Assata Shakur describes the ideology behind the method really well. Alike her comments, all of the groups who have accomplished what their goal was had to go against the belief for what they're were protesting for. There have been many popular protests, and of the most famous that comes up to mind, for me, is Caesar Chavez's type of "protest". He boycotted by announcing to all the participants to not buy fruit from the markets, which caused farms to fail because of the lack of sails. He did this because workers weren't getting the pay they wanted. The boycott resulted in them receiving more pay, which was a success for them. There are also other ways the implications of this quote is true. There are the ways black people have fought for their freedom, the way slaves fought for the escape of being a slave, and the representations of women for being equal like men.
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